Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Tusser

Seek home for rest, for home is best.

Lorraine Hansberry

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

Donald E. Westlake

Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote.

Keith Haring

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

Randall Kennedy

Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.

Victoria Hanley

'Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue to setting, plotting to character creation, is laid out and illustrated with examples. But the tone of the book is not that of a dry writing manual - it's definitely written for teenagers.

Kelly Rowland

Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.

Steny Hoyer

Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, said that Republicans' number one priority was the defeat of President Obama.

Tom Daschle

Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included.

Zac Goldsmith

Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.

Norman Mailer

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

Geraldine Brooks

September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

Karen Finerman

Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.

Pauly Shore

Serious and intense people, they drain you. But someone who's an idiot, like myself, they're fun. You either hate me or you love me.

Elsa Maxwell

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

Bliss Carman

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

Vincent Millay

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world -- it is thin.

Hedi Slimane

Sex is not a subject in my photographs, or would only be if it had to do with romance, sometimes vulnerability. The photographs are quite clearly about happiness, or search for happiness.

Lisa Snowdon

Sex keeps me in shape. I don't diet, I eat what I like. I love Mars bars and I smoke and drink. But I love running off in the middle of the day to make love. It really burns up calories.

Molly Parker

Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life.

Vincent Nichols

Sexual living is a reflection of God's love for us. It has two key qualities, which is faithfulness and creativity of new life.

Richard Engel

'Shabiha' is a difficult word to translate into English. It comes from the word Syrians used to describe the luxury Mercedes favored by the Assad family's operatives that the enforcers of the regime used to move money, smuggle weapons and intimidate opponents.

Vanessa Redgrave

Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings

Blake Edwards

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

Laura Slade Wiggins

'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.

M. F. K. Fisher

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

David Gest

She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.

Thomas Nelson Page

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires.

Faith Hunter

Shelter dogs are the most loving, wonderful, sweet pets in the world. They understand being rescued, loved, and protected. The hubs and I have 2 rescued 11-yr-old Pomeranians, who adore us.

Peter Bergman

She said, and I'm not kidding, 'Is this a speaking role?' I wasn't quite sure how to answer that one.

Sri Aurobindo

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

Stephen J. Cannell

Once you put something like 'The A-Team' on the map, it does become part of the DNA of television. People grab little pieces of it. I certainly grabbed little pieces of other people's shows when I was creating my shows.

Bill Vaughan

Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.

Valentina Tereshkova

Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.

Sergio Aragones

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

John le Carre

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

Eden Sher

On Christmas, my family and I see a movie and go out for Chinese food. We don't celebrate Christmas in the traditional sense, in that we do not actually celebrate Christmas.

Douglas Rushkoff

One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal retentive, Bauhaus elegance of the Mac does prevent the loose ends and confusion of a less sterile environment. But it also prevents fertility. Apple's development must come from within.

Thein Sein

One big difference between our situation in Myanmar and other situations around the world is that we're not just trying to achieve peace with one group but 11 groups - so it is incredibly complicated as well.

John Steinbeck

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

Emile Durkheim

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.

Woodrow Wilson

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Chuck Todd

One could argue the GOP made no progress on limiting government in their four years of total control from 2002 to 2006. If anything, government expanded like never before.

Philip Pullman

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

J. Cole

One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

Brandy Norwood

One day it just hit me. This is it. You are not in love. So either stay in it because you have a child or be brave and find the man of your dreams and marry him for real.

Patrick Stewart

One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.

Lukas Haas

One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school.

Grete Waitz

One day you are happy and laughing and the next you are crying.